New Christian Miraculously Saved from Death and Shame

Hawa Ahmed was a Muslim student in North Africa. One day, she read a Christian tract in her dormitory and decided to become a Christian. Her father was ...

God Holds Us During Tragedy

When Ann married, she gave up her nominal Christian belief that seemed irrelevant to her new life. Although Ann and her husband were wealthy, romance ...

Hearing God's Word of Love

When Steve Henning of Huntley, Illinois, was two years old, he contracted spinal meningitis. It was the winter of 1943, and because of World War II, doctors ...

God Celebrates Our Arrival

I remember being touched by the popular song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." It tells of a man who's been sent to prison. He's served his time ...

Father's Hand Rescues Us

One of the most powerful images of my wife's childhood came when she and a neighbor girl were playing in some woods behind their homes. The neighbor ...

Tension of Loving and Fearing God

Jerry Bridges, in his book The Joy of Fearing God, describes the healthy tension between loving and fearing God:

In the physical realm there are two opposing ...

Richard Pryor Calls on God

Comedian Richard Pryor was critically burned in an accident in 1980. Appearing later on the "Johnny Carson Show," he insisted that when you ...

Gifts Pleasing to God

One of the things my father taught all his sons was how to use a crosscut saw. His daddy and his daddy's daddy had taught their sons, and my father ...

Mission to Die

In The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan writes:

In 490 B.C. as Xerxes was advancing into Greece, he came to Thermopylae, a small pass in central Greece. ...

Love Letter from God

Many years ago, a doting groom penned a love letter to his bride. Stationed at a California military base thousands of miles away from his wife, James ...